BeyondNFT
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BeyondNFT is a platform that allows creators to make a new kind of NFT that is called "Interactive NFT" and is defined by html/css and JavaScript code, which allows an infinite possibility of things to become NFT.
Interactive Art? Audio player customized? Game items that evolve depending on their real stats? Minigame? Social experiments? All is possible.
The idea is to create something that is flexible enough to accommodate the most needs in term of interactivity and dynamism.
This new type, "Interactive NFT" is Open Source, and I invite everyone to participate in its development so it stays secure for users, but usefull for all NFT creators
Team Story
BeyondNFT has been created during a Hackathon in November. the idea was first to allow artists to create interactive Art and not have to always transform their arts into GIFs or Videos, losing interactivity, dynamism, quality and potentially infinite randomness.
It quickly appears that this interactivity was not needed only for Art, which is why instead of doing something solely for this purpose, I went to the path of trying to create a "standard" way of creating NFTs defined by code: Interactive NFTs (https://github.com/beyondnft/sandbox)
Since then, I have been working on BeyondNFT as a side project since I am a freelance web engineer next to that.
After Participation to the Untilted NFT Hackathon during which a pre-alpha was deployed on Rinkeby, I participated to the Matic Build'n'Earn round 2, where I had a great support from the Matic team and all other builders from the program.
Matic has been a natural choice for me, because I have this feeling that the NFT world is elitist, in the way that people need to have Ether to be able to mint and share their creations. This, is an entry barrier for younger people or overall Artists and people who are living in places where they can not procure Ether. By going on a network with very low fees, I have been able to take the minting costs and allow people to just create and sell their creations, without having to use any crypto. Reducing the cost of entry and not really curating the arts is something that I think is important for me. I understand platforms that only want "the best content/artists" but this is also too elitist for what I would like to build.
Kernel is the next adventure, and I have already met great fellows and mentors. I was unsure to want to work on BeyondNFT or join other fellows projects, but I can see now that focusing on one is the most efficient way.
- Week 3: I commited during the COMMIT-REVEAL Kernel event to finally start the refactoring of the old legacy code that was created during the Hackaton. It's going smoothly enough. I have my scripts that are migrating the database from a Firebase to a Postgresql, and I am now creating a new back-end code to handle all the API.
This is going nicely, I hope to be finished this week and then be able to work on the integration to deploy on Mainnet (I am already on Matic and xDai) in the next 10 to 14 days.
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Ideas of functionalities: right now people can code directly in the browser. After launching on Mainnet I will focus on the Templates (users will be able to reuse Interactive NFT templates and for example only have to upload an image and a few .wav file to mint and exchange and NFT that allows to play music) and on Filters (imagine coming with an old useless crypto kitty and adding a filter specifically created for cryptokitties that will transform it into a kind of Tamagotchi that you can feed and interact with, or just add animations on it and make it gorgeous)
Other functionalities are welcome. I want users to be able to create "collections" to sort their NFTs and showcase them. Also to be able LazyMint (minting without having to make a transaction) → contract is already ready, I just need to finish what I'm doing and be able to work on being compatible with it just after.
Management: Another point where I am clueless is everything that is management (in term of a company). BeyondNFT is a side project that is born from a Hackathon. I didn't have time, nor have a lot of clues how, to register a company or anything. I am based in Berlin, Germany, and I know I should go through the process but this is something that is actually scary in a way; Any information / guidance by people who already went through registering crypto products / companies in Europe could be very appreciated.
Technical thoughts: Ideas of improvements and evolution to the "Interactive NFT" standard (https://github.com/beyondnft/sandbox) from technical people would also be awesome. This is really thought in a way to be flexible and accommodate most needs (configuration, flexibility, embedding, ...) but I am definitely missing things, so even ideas of what would be nice to be able to do (signing messages, having artists sign the content of the code so users can decide what code they execute or not, ...) there are lot of things possible and that would make the concept more secure for end users.
Last updated on
Feb 7, 2021
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- Other NFT people in the ecosystem.
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BeyondNFT is a platform that allows creators to make a new kind of NFT that is called "Interactive NFT" and is defined by html/css and JavaScript code, which allows an infinite possibility of things to become NFT.
Interactive Art? Audio player customized? Game items that evolve depending on their real stats? Minigame? Social experiments? All is possible.
The idea is to create something that is flexible enough to accommodate the most needs in term of interactivity and dynamism.
This new type, "Interactive NFT" is Open Source, and I invite everyone to participate in its development so it stays secure for users, but usefull for all NFT creators.